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KITCHEN UTENSIL. No. 485,312. Patented Nov. 1, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE B. WILEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-TI-IIRDS TOTHOMAS W. WILEY AND JOHN J. NEWPORT, OF SAME PLACE.

KITCHEN UTENSIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,312, dated November1, 1892.

Application filed December 14, 1891. Serial No. 415 045- (No model.)

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE B. WILEY, of the city of St. Louis and Stateof Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inKitchen Utensils, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in kitchen utensils; and itconsists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts, as will bemore fully hereinafter described, and designated in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of my completeinvention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view with the lid removed.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and improved vesselfor cooking or other similar purposes, so constructed that all volatileproducts in the way of disagreeable odors, steam, etc, may be carriedfrom the said vessel through the stove and out through the draft of thesame.

I will give a further description of the use and object of my inventionin connection with a mechanical description of the same.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates an ordinary cooking-receptacleprovided with an appropriate fitting lid 2. The bottom of saidreceptacle 1 is provided with a substantiallyelliptical-shaped hole 3,which when receptacle l is placed in the ordinary place of the stove-capaffords a communication between the fire-chamber of said stove and theinterior space of said receptacle. Secured around the inner edge of saidhole 3, and also to the interior lateral surface of the receptacle 1, isa substantially-U-shaped cleat 4, the object of which is to prevent thesubstance contained in receptacle 1 from passing out through the hole 3.It can be readily perceived by referring to Fig. 1 that the U-shapedcleat 4 is of such a construction and occupies such a posi tion relativeto the lid 2 of the receptacle that a passage 5 is formed between theupper edge of said cleat and the lid 2, thus permitting the volatileproducts to pass between said lid and cleat and down between said cleatand the side of the receptacle, as illustrated by arrows. In order toefiect a draft through the interior space of said receptacle 1, it isneces= I employ for admitting cold air into the interior space of thereceptacle 1 for the purpose of creating a draft thereto and forcing theVolatile products out through the passage 6.

7 indicates a hollow handle,which is secured to the receptacle 1 in anysuitable and mechanical manner. Said handle 7 has a solid partition 8secured therein at a distance of about one inch from said receptacle,thus forming in said handle a compartment 9, which is in communicationwith the interior space of the said receptacle, and a compartment 10,which is of no special function.

11 indicates a series of air-ingress ports, which are formed in thehandle 7 between partition 8 and the receptacle, through which the coldair passes into compartment 9, and thence into the interior space of thereceptacle 1, as indicated by arrows.

Having given a description of the mechanical parts of my invention, Iwill now proceed to describe the operation of the same, it beingconceived in this connection that the cookingreceptacle 1 occupiestheposition usually occu- V pied by a stove-cap.

Whenever any volatile products are generated,the cold air passing inthrough the ports 11, which lie oppositely to the passages 5 and 6, willforce the rarified volatile products, in accordancelwith the principlesof pneumatics, through the passage 5, thence down through the passage 6,and be carried ed by the draft of the stove.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is- As an improvedarticle of manufacture, a culinary utensil consisting of a receptacle 1,having the contour of itssides unbroken, a

U-shaped cleat 4, secured to one side of said receptacle Within theinterior thereof and forming a passage 5, terminating below the upperend of the receptacle, the bottom of the receptacle having an opening 6com-.

municating with said passage, a hollow handle '7, secured to thereceptacle diametrically opposite to the passage and provided with apartition 8, and apertures 9 between said par- 10 tition and thereceptacle, said apertures affording communication between the passage 5and the exterior atmosphere, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

HORACE B. WILEY. Witnesses:

ED. E. LONGAN, ALFRED A. EIoKs.

